Arlen Specter Says Bush Is Not the Decider

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

January 30,2007

"I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider," Sen. Arlen Specter ( voting record), R-Pa., said during a hearing on Congress' war powers amid an increasingly harsh debate over Iraq war policy. "The decider is a shared and joint responsibility," Specter said.

"The Constitution makes Congress a coequal branch of government. It's time we start acting like it," said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who is chairing a hearing Tuesday on Congress' war powers and forwarding legislation to eventually prohibit funding for the deployment of troops to Iraq.   

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer ( voting record) of California, for example, is a sponsor of a bill that would call for troops to come home in 180 days and allow for a minimum number of forces to be left behind to hunt down terrorists and train Iraqi security forces.

"Read the Constitution," Boxer told her colleagues last week. "The Congress has the power to declare war. And on multiple occasions, we used our power to end conflicts."  Entire Article

    Sen. Specter is showing himself to be quite the assailant as of late when it comes to Bush and all of his rhetoric about what he can and cannot do! I never thought I'd see a Republican up in Washington grow some balls!

    Now if we could only get these people to actually do something about Bush and the rest of the Crime Family instead of just flapping their jaws and coming up with non-binding resolutions, we might actually start to get excited over all of their discontent with bush!

 

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